Bug#263426: Your second suggestion is flawed

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

Hi Andreas,

your second suggestion for this bug ("gcc-3.3 on i386, mipsel and sparc  
is built against binutils 2.15 and will try to use --as-needed") is 
flawed, since this will break again with any binary NMU or other update 
for gcc-3.3.

The only real choices are:
1. update the dependency on binutils
2. hack gcc/configure.in to not define HAVE_LD_AS_NEEDED

The preferred approach at least in the long term is definitely the first 
one.

cu
Adrian

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